Demario Richard dropped a Herm Edwards reference Friday, but mostly Arizona State football players reflected on outgoing coach Todd Graham and the prospects of the coordinators returning under a new coach in their first public comments since Graham's firing Sunday.
"You play this game to win," Richard said when asked about winning for Graham as bowl game motivation. "You'll might have got that quote from somebody before."
That somebody would be Edwards, expected to be announced as ASU's 24th football coach next week provided ASU President Michael Crow approves the choice. Edwards' response to a question at a mid-week news conference in 2002 when he was New York Jets head coach -- You play to win the game -- not only has stuck to him but is even familiar to collegians who were 6 or younger at the time of the rant.